Traditional Anglican ping, continued in memory of its founder Arlin Adams. His idea might have had merit a decade or so ago, but he just doesn't get it, does he.
then what is yours?
The only answer that has any integrity at this point is to tell (either as an individual, a parish, or a diocese) the ECUSA to take a hike.
They had their ulterior motives in saying so, because they wanted war. But also, to an extent, they were right: Liddel-Hart pointed out that once millions of men had been gathered, put in uniform, and armed, there was a kind of popular "nervous hysteria" that positively clamored for those forces to be used. The generals had no way of controlling this, even had they wanted to. To have done otherwise, would have been to lose their authority.
The result, of course, was unspeakably horrible -- millions of men were ground to paste by the pride of the generals; and their sons, in turn, were ground to paste for essentially the same reason. (As my grandfather put it, here he was in WWII, not 20 miles from where his twin brother had been killed in WWI, fighting the same people, over the same ground, for the same reasons.)
It seems to me that the Anglican Communion is in much the same position today: neither side is willing to demobilize for the sake of finding a solution that doesn't involve the chewing up of an entire church. IMO, it's not just the American or Canadian churches that are in trouble: it's the African churches, too. The Anglican Communion hangs in the balance.
Dark days ahead. It's no longer a matter of theological disagreement -- real though that is. The real force at work is human pride, getting in the way of doing God's work. As usual.
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There has been a long and often close relationship between
the Anglican and Catholic Churches. In certain situations
there remains a mutual recognition of the validity of key
doctrines, liturgies, and practices. And the Catholic
Church continues to hold the faith and moral teachings as
taught by the Apostles.
I understand that there is also an Anglican Use liturgy
within the Catholic Church, wherein the Book of Common Prayer
is used for the Mass (with minor updates). So there is no need
to lose the liturgy Anglicans may be familiar with.
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Catholic Answers
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Coming Home Network
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Provides fellowship, encouragement and support for Protestant
pastors and laymen who are somewhere along the journey or
have already been received into the Catholic Church.
Biblical Evidence for Catholicism
www.biblicalcatholic.com
Dave Armstrong's monster site. Eclectic, fun, exhaustingly
detailed, personal, moving, and more.
And may God bless your journey where ever it takes you.
posted on 08/05/2003 5:19 PM PDT by polemikos